Patents by Inventor David R. Woodham

David R. Woodham has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7920747
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to video scaling and compression and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for pre-distribution image scaling for screen size. In one embodiment of the invention, a compressed video delivery method can be provided. The method can include determining a display size for a target computing platform, pre-scaling video imagery to comport with the display size of the target computing platform, compressing the pre-scaled video imagery, and transmitting the compressed, pre-scaled video imagery to the target computing platform over a computer communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Logan S. Gabriel, Eric R. Kern, Paul K. Scrutton, David R. Woodham, Tong Yu, Michael S. Rollins, Janae V. Simons, David R. Chiluk, Torez Smith
  • Publication number: 20080279461
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to video scaling and compression and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for pre-distribution image scaling for screen size. In one embodiment of the invention, a compressed video delivery method can be provided. The method can include determining a display size for a target computing platform, pre-scaling video imagery to comport with the display size of the target computing platform, compressing the pre-scaled video imagery, and transmitting the compressed, pre-scaled video imagery to the target computing platform over a computer communications network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Logan S. Gabriel, Eric R. Kern, Paul K. Scrutton, David R. Woodham, Tong Yu
  • Publication number: 20080252490
    Abstract: Merging a codec with a digital media file, including receiving, by a digital media provider from a playback device through a data communications network, a request for the digital media file, the digital media file comprising digital media content encoded by a codec, identifying, by the digital media provider, the codec by which the digital media content was encoded, inserting, by the digital media provider, the codec into the digital media file, distributing the digital media file with the inserted codec to the playback device through the data communications network. Playing a digital media file on a playback device, including receiving the digital media file in the playback device, extracting the codec from within the digital media file, installing, by the playback device, the codec for operation on the playback device, and decoding, by the playback device through the codec, the digital media content for playback on the playback device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: David R. Chiluk, Logan S. Gabriel, Eric R. Kern, Michael S. Rollins, Paul K. Scrutton, Janae V. Simons, Torez Smith, David R. Woodham, Tong Yu
  • Publication number: 20080250486
    Abstract: A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for a local blade server security is provided. The design structure includes a system capable of extracting authentication information for a local user from a USB keydrive inserted in the chassis of the blade server; comparing the extracted authentication information with predetermined authentication credentials; and granting access to one or more resources on the blade server if the extracted authentication information matches the predetermined authentication credentials; and denying access to one or more resources on the blade server if the extracted authentication information does not match the predetermined authentication credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: GREGG K. GIBSON, ERIC R. KERN, MICHAEL S. ROLLINS, JANAE V. SIMONS, DAVID R. WOODHAM, TONG YU
  • Publication number: 20080104680
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products for local blade server security are provided. Embodiments include extracting authentication information for a local user from a USB keydrive inserted in the chassis of the blade server; comparing the extracted authentication information with predetermined authentication credentials; and granting access to one or more resources on the blade server if the extracted authentication information matches the predetermined authentication credentials; and denying access to one or more resources on the blade server if the extracted authentication information does not match the predetermined authentication credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Gregg K. Gibson, Eric R. Kern, Michael S. Rollins, Janae V. Simons, David R. Woodham, Tong Yu
  • Publication number: 20040103180
    Abstract: Signals to a management module are generated on an occurrence of an event affecting one of a plurality of server blades housed in a common chassis with the management module and aggregated in the management module. Signaling in accordance with this invention may be originated at a number of levels of operation of information handling systems, and distinction can be drawn between an occurrence requiring prompt attention from an operator—an alert—and occurrences where such prompt action is unnecessary. Occurrences signaled are logged for possible later review, and such a log will, in the contemplation of this invention, contain events related to a number of server blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rodney Hugh Brown, Gregory William Dake, Jeffery M. Franke, Donald Eugene Johnson, Edward Joseph Klodnicki, Carl Anthony Morrell, Chetan Dhirubhai Patel, Michael Scott Rollins, William Bradley Schwartz, David R. Woodham
  • Patent number: 6701360
    Abstract: A method and system for independent console access including tracking in a server system allows a plurality of users simultaneous access to any of a plurality of data sources associated with the server. The data sources can be associated with partitions into which the server is divided or can be independent of the partitions. The method and system of the invention also allow a first user of the server to connect to one of the data sources through a tracking mirror, which enables a second user of the server to monitor the movements of the first user by connecting, via the tracking mirror, to the same data source to which the first user connects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Scott S. Diesing, Janis Delmonte, Robert Alan Hasty, David R. Woodham